Human Resources committee  Okay. For the financial penalties, there's a possibility of imposing financial penalties in cases of non-compliance, and this has been reintroduced. The penalties would be put into a cooperation fund and used in the offending country to help it resolve the matter that is under d

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much for the questions. The objectives of the labour cooperation agreements I would say are threefold. What we're trying to do is have within them.... We use a standard framework in these LCAs. The first objective is comprehensive labour rights obligations, includ

Human Resources committee  The first agreement we negotiated was the agreement in the margin of the free trade agreement. We have the North American agreement on labour cooperation, which was a little bit different. The dispute resolution is a little different there. There is a system of tiering, which we

Human Resources committee  The Labour Program operates on three levels: federal jurisdiction, national and international. Federal jurisdiction includes many of Canada's national infrastructure industries or anything involving: navigation, fishing, shipping, operation of ships, airports, airlines, teleco

Human Resources committee  On the international stage, our objective is to protect Canadian businesses from unfair competition that could result from the laxness of existing labour standards. The Labour Program has two main thrusts: helping the International Labour Organization to develop international lab

Human Resources committee  I would like to start by talking a little bit about the mandate of the Labour Program. The Labour Program's mandate is to promote safe, fair and productive workplaces and cooperative workplace relations. The Labour Program delivers on its mandate through the administration and e